David Tennant - Biography - IMDb David Tennant Biography Showing all 152 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (98) | Personal Quotes (46) Overview (3) 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (1) David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald , who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent. When he was about 3 or 4 years old, he decided to become an actor, inspired by his love of Doctor Who (1963). He was brought up in Bathgate, West Lothian and Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland and was a huge fan of the band The Proclaimers . He attended Paisley Grammar school and while there he wrote about how he wanted to become a professional actor and play the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963).

He made his first television appearance (which was also his first professional acting job) when he was 16, after his father sent some photos of him to a casting director at Scottish television. He also attended a youth theatre group at weekends run by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD - now renamed the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland [RCS]). When he was 16 he auditioned for and won a place at the RSAMD; the youngest student to ever do so, and started as a full time drama student when he was 17. He worked regularly in theatre and TV after leaving drama school, and his first big break came in 1994 when he was cast in a lead role in the Scottish drama Takin' Over the Asylum (1994). He then moved to London where his career thrived. Amongst other things, he spent several years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and became famous from his lead roles in TV dramas Blackpool (2004) and Casanova (2005). In 2005, his childhood wish came true.

David was cast to play the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005) alongside Billie Piper , after Christopher Eccleston decided to leave. Playing the Doctor made him a household name. Since leaving the series in 2010 his career has continued to rise, with lead roles in films, TV series and theatre. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Samtroy Spouse (1) ( 30 December 2011 - present) (4 children) Trade Mark (3) Raising his eyebrows a lot Trivia (98) David Tennant is a respected classical actor who has performed numerous starring roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Touchstone in "As You Like It," Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet," Antipholus of Syracuse in "The Comedy of Errors," and Captain Jack Absolute in "The Rivals.". He was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 2002 for his performance in "Lobby Hero" performed at the Donmar Warehouse and the New Ambassador's Theatres. Attended Paisley Grammar. Graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Acted with the 7:84 Theatre Company, a genre-bending, ground-breaking, political Scottish Theatre Group. Decided to be an actor at the age of three. Cast as "Tenth Doctor" for BBC Doctor Who (2005) series to star alongside Billie Piper (April 2005). While attending Paisley Grammar School, he wrote an essay on how his greatest desire was to play Doctor Who on TV. Best friends with Louise Delamere ( No Angels (2004)). They went to Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama together and shared a flat. Chose his acting surname from Neil Tennant , singer with Pet Shop Boys . This came after reading an interview with Tennant in "Smash Hits" shortly after learning that he would have to change his professional name in order to join the actors' union, Equity, as there was already a registered member with his real name, David McDonald. Nominated for Best Classical Actor Under 30, Ian Charleson Award for his theater role in "Comedy of Errors" as Antipholus of Syracuse.

[2000] Won Best Male Performance, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, for his role in "Look Back in Anger" as Jimmy Porter. [2005] Won Best Actor, Theatre Management Association, for his role in "The Glass Menagerie" as Tom. Is a big fan of film director Alfred Hitchcock . Is the second Scots actor to be cast as "The Doctor" (and got a chance to use his actual accent, once, when the Doctor poses as a Scottish physician in episode Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw (2006)). The first was Sylvester McCoy , who was cast as the seventh Doctor in the original series. McCoy's time in the TARDIS was from 1987 to 1989. On August 31, 2007, he turned on the illumination lights for Blackpool. His heroes are John Cleese and Derek Jacobi . Says that his favorite Doctor from the original Doctor Who (1963) was Tom Baker . Considers Paisley as his hometown. His father is Sandy McDonald , a retired minister; mother Helen died of cancer in July 2007.

Has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. Favorite actress is Audrey Hepburn . Favorite book is "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger . Along with Matt Smith , Elisabeth Sladen , John Leeson , Tommy Knight , Alexander Armstrong , Lachele Carl , and Nicholas Courtney , he is one of only eight actors to play the same character in both Doctor Who (2005) and The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007). So many people wanted to see him in the 2009 RSC Production of Hamlet; the London run at the Novello Theater sold out in three hours. Missed out for a nomination for the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for his "Hamlet" because he did not perform enough shows in London after the show transfered from Stratford-Upon-Avon, due to a back injury and surgery during the London run. Nominated 2009 Evening Standard Theater Award for Best Actor for his Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Won 2009 Critics Choice Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Nominated for the 2008 Royal Television Society Award-Best Actor for Recovery and Doctor Who. Nominated for the 2009 Broadcasting Guild Awards-Best Actor for his portrayal of "Sir Arthur Eddington" in Einstein and Eddington (2008) and "The Doctor" in Doctor Who (2005). Winner 2009 Theatregoers' Choice Award Best Regional Production was RSC Production of Hamlet with David Tennant and 2009 Theatregoers' Choice Award for Theatre Event of the Year was David Tennant's return to the stage in the RSC Production of Hamlet. From taking the role of The Doctor in 2005 to when he gave the role up in 2010, he became the second longest actor to play the title role on television and the third longest overall. Married to Georgia Moffett since 30th December 2011. They met on the set of Doctor Who (2005) in November 2007, but did not become a couple until some time later. She is the daughter of former "Doctor Who" actor Peter Davison .

In January 2011, UK tabloids reported that they had moved in together and become engaged. Moffett gave birth to the couple's first child two months later, and they married nine months after that. Tennant has never spoken about or confirmed their relationship to the media, though Moffett occasionally posts about him on her social media pages. Tennant revealed on The New Paul O'Grady Show (2004) that he had auditioned for the role of "the Blue Meanie" in the remake of Yellow Submarine (1968). His fiancée, actress Georgia Moffett , gave birth to his first child, a daughter named Olive, on 29 March 2011. He is the second of three non-English actors to portray the "Doctor Who" character. Along with Sylvester McCoy , and Peter Capaldi , all three are Scottish. Married Georgia Moffett on the 30th December 2011. He adopted his wife's son, Tyler, in 2011. He started acting with the hope that he would one day get to play the title role on "Doctor Who".

Is a big fan of the TV series, Firefly (2002). Son-in-law of Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson . His all-time favourite Doctor Who character is the Zygons, who first appeared in Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons: Part One (1975), a Fourth Doctor adventure. Auditioned for the lead role in the American NBC TV series Hannibal. Tennant was unsuccessful, but show-runner Bryan Fuller said in a magazine interview that Tennant's audition was so impressive, he wanted to write him a guest spot as a deranged serial killer. His wife became pregnant for the third time seven months after their wedding, and gave birth on 3rd May 2013. Did not enjoy doing the automatic dialogue replacement in post-production for Doctor Who (2005) episodes. Is the second in a string of Scotish born actors to play the Doctor along side Sylvester McCoy , the 7th Doctor, and Peter Capaldi the 12th Doctor. Used to get in trouble at school because all of the essays he wrote were about Doctor Who (1963) in some way.

His most treasured childhood possession was a scarf that an aunt knitted him that was modeled after the iconic multi-colored one worn by Tom Baker on ''Doctor Who''. The appearance of Lex Luthor's assistant Spalding in Paul Cornell 's run on ''Action Comics'' is based on him. Cornell has written many expanded universe stories featuring Tennant's Tenth Doctor. Legally changed his name to David Tennant, due to rules of the Screen Actors' Guild of America (one's stage name must be the same as one's legal name). Announced he is leaving Doctor Who (2005) after he films four "Bank Holiday" specials and a Christmas special for 2009. Has already finished work on the 2008 Doctor Who (2005) Christmas special. [October 2008] Filming mini-series drama, Single Father (2010), for BBC Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. [April 2010] Margate, Kent: filming True Love (2012). Tennant started work on "True Love" two days after his play, "Much Ado About Nothing", ended.

[September 2011] London: Filming the TV series, The Politician's Husband (2013). (In June and July). [June 2012] Filming for Fright Night (2011), in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [September 2010] In Carlisle and Newcastle filming United (2011). [December 2010] Recording the radio play Kafka, the Musical in London. [January 2011] In London rehearsing for the play 'Much Ado About Nothing.' Rehearsals started on 4 April in Shepherd's Bush. [April 2011] Cardiff, Wales: Filming Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special [April 2013] Poland: shooting Spies of Warsaw (2013) (between early April and mid-June). [April 2012] Los Angeles, attending the TCAs. Tennant was in LA for three days only as he was in the middle of shooting different projects. [August 2012] London, shooting a TV commercial for Virgin.

[December 2012] Wales, filming the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special. [April 2013] London: Recording the audiobook 'How to Steal a Dragon's Heart.' [January 2013] Filming for the film, The Decoy Bride (2011), in Scotland and Isle of Man. [June 2010] Bristol: Filming the TV series, Broadchurch (2013) (from early August to December). [August 2012] Los Angeles: Auditioning for acting work and doing publicity for Spies of Warsaw. [December 2012] Filming Single Father (2010) in Edinburgh. [May 2010] London: recording the comedy panel game show ''Comedy World Cup'' (as presenter). Tennant filmed Broadchurch Mon-Fri in Bristol and returned to London on the weekends to record Comedy World Cup. [November 2012] Hertfordshire and London, filming The Escape Artist.

[February 2013] Scotland, filming The Escape Artist [March 2013] Guest starring in the comedy stage show 'Celebrity Autobiography' at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. Tennant made his first performance two days after he returned to England from New Mexico, where he'd been shooting the film Fright Night. [October 2010] Coventry, Wales and Warwickshire: filming Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! (2012) (filming took place during October and November). [October 2011] As of April 16, 2005, officially announced as the tenth actor to play the classic television character "Doctor Who," taking over from Christopher Eccleston for the second series of the BBC's Sci-Fi show revival. [April 2005] Filming the 2007 Christmas episode of Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007), with Kylie Minogue in Cardiff. [July 2007] Newcastle: shooting the BBC2 film, United (2011).

[November 2010] In Uganda filming for Comic Relief. [November 2010] London, filming the BBC1 drama series The Escape Artist (2013). During this month Tennant also recorded numerous audio books and radio plays. [January 2013] Playing "Hamlet" in RSC Stratford-upon-Avon, alongside Patrick Stewart . [August 2008] London and Watford, Hertfordshire, filming The Politician's Husband (2013) (between mid-June and the end of July). Tennant started work on the series two days after he returned from Poland. [June 2012] June-July 2012. London, filming )The Politician's Husband_. August - December 2012. Dorset and Somerset, filming Broadchurch. January - March 2013. London, Scotland and Hertfordshire, filming The Escape Artist (2013). April - May 2013. Filming the Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) in Wales. His son was born the day after his final day on set.

Tennant then took three weeks off, though he recorded several voice overs and TV commercials, and took a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon to have meetings for Richard II during this time. June - August 2013. Filming the movie What We Did On Our Holiday in Scotland. January - May 2014. Filming Gracepoint in Victoria, Canada. David flew to Canada the day after the final performance of Richard II. May - October 2014. Filming Broadchurch series 2 in Dorset, Devon and Somerset. David started work on Broadchurch three days after flying home from Canada. August 2013 - January 2014. Playing Richard II in the Royal Shakespeare Production of the play in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Is a huge fan of Madonna and says "Like a Virgin" was the first single he ever bought. Is a huge fan of The West Wing (1999). In 2007, Tennant became only the second actor to play the Doctor in the Doctor Who TV series to be interviewed as a guest on the UK's most celebrated talk show, Parkinson (1971).

The first had been Jon Pertwee , who had been interviewed in 1980, six years after he had left the part. Won Best Actor Award for his role in 'Richard II' at British Stage Awards 2015. Amazed the audience at his first appearance on the BBC radio quiz show "Just a Minute" (25 Feb 2015) by speaking extemporaneously for a full minute on the topic "Exit, Pursued by a Bear.". (February 2015 - August 2015) New York, shooting 'aka Jessica Jones'. Is the only actor to play two canonical incarnations of The Doctor. Her fourth child a daughter named Doris was born in 2015. Personal Quotes (46) Drama school is a pretty intense experience and I think it changes who you are. I think I grew up at drama school (which was fairly useful personally as much as professionally) and I certainly got exposed to a huge range of ideas, techniques, and practices that I had no previous experience of. I wouldn't have known what I was doing as an actor if I hadn't gone.

On his early decision to become an actor: "I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do." I do thrive on hard work. Unlike other enduring characters such as Sherlock Holmes or Tarzan, being the Doctor allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself. I was sent good luck cards from Tom Baker and Peter Davison . They were the Doctors I grew up watching, while eating toast and drinking Tizer at home, so I was very honoured. I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school. I'm as happy doing 'Postman Pat' as I am doing 'Hamlet.' I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that. I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series of all time. I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that. I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me. I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do. I have such fond memories of watching Doctor Who (1963) when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don't have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it's really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience. Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice. Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee! The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes. The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good. David Tennant: ‘Doctor Who’ role was ‘impossibly fortunate’ | Hero Complex – movies, comics, pop culture – Los Angeles Times David Tennant: ‘Doctor Who’ role was ‘impossibly fortunate’ Dec. 22, 2009 | 9:28 p.m.

Robert Lloyd recently interviewed “Doctor Who” star David Tennant for a lengthy piece in the Los Angeles Times but there still wasn’t enough room for all of the good stuff that came out of the lively conversation. So, Lloyd has given the Hero Complex a deeper transcript of his chat with the soon-to-expire “Tenth Doctor.” Tennant is expected to regenerate into replacement Matt Smith in the two-part finale “The End of Time,” which begins Dec. 26. The actor has been in Los Angeles filming his first American pilot, “ Rex is Not Your Lawyer ,” for NBC. RL: American series television seems to have become a regular career path for British actors. DT: I think British actors have always aspired to that because there’s an international market in America which isn’t quite the same at home. We have something of a film industry and we have some television product which travels internationally, but it’s limited. So I guess we are fortunate in that we speak the same language as America — it’s always there as a possibility, I suppose.

And you’re always wanting to see what’s out there in life, make sure you haven’t missed an experience, make sure you’re not 82 and looking back and thinking I wish I’d done that then. We shall have to wait and see whether America’s interested, but at least I can say I tried. You never know from any year to the next how things are going to pan out, and I think you just have to treat it all as a bit of an adventure so that you’re neither crushed nor overwhelmed by what may occur. RL: When you began to meet with American producers, did you find that they were familiar with “Doctor Who,” or did you need to explain yourself? DT: At one end you have huge fans who are getting you to sign their DVD box sets when you’re in having a meeting, and on the other end you’ve got people who don’t even quite know why they’re meeting you — somebody’s told them, “There’s this guy over from Britain and he’s in a show so maybe you should take a meeting,” and they’re slightly bewildered at the whole prospect.

“Doctor Who” clearly doesn’t have the ubiquity it does at home, and yet there are some people who really get it and are very enthusiastic about it. But it’s certainly easier to get around out here — I just put a baseball cap down over my face and go to the shops. RL: How hard is that at home? DT: Well, “hard” makes it sound like a terrible sufferance, which it’s not. But one is recognized fairly regularly there, whereas here it’s about once a day. RL: How did “Doctor Who” transform your career — are you a different actor, or a different commodity, now than you were before? DT: I don’t know if I’m a different actor. That’s an interesting question, I don’t know that I’ll know for a few years how it’s altered what I do. “Doctor Who” has a level of popularity, in Britain certainly, which allowed me opportunities I probably didn’t have before, and I think it was almost all positive from that professional point of view — which I wasn’t necessarily sure it would be. It’s a bit of a gamble going into any kind of long-running series, especially one that has such a high recognition factor.

You’re never sure if that will work against you, this notion of typecasting that gets bandied around among actors. But I get a sense that we’re in a kind of world now where if you’re popular for one thing then people are interested in having you for another, which maybe wasn’t always the case. And “Doctor Who,” which perhaps once was slightly derided as a piece of popular culture, currently — certainly in Britain — is seen as a sort of quality product, so I’ve benefited from that. Any slight nervousness I had about it having a negative impact on me professionally has proved not to be the case, I think. RL: You made the decision to leave some time ago. DT: Yes. Myself and Russell T. Davies, the show runner, and Julie Gardner, the executive producer, the three of us talked about the prospect of all leaving together, which means the show can kind of reboot a bit with a whole new team and a couple of leading actors. Steven Moffat, who is now the show runner, was a big part of the show we made, but now he’s in charge and will be putting his own stamp on it. But I’m sure it’ll still be recognizable as the same show.

RL: Was it hard to go? DT: It was hard because I felt very fondly toward it. I’ve always been a huge fan of “Doctor Who,” so to find myself in the middle of it was always impossibly fortunate, and to walk away from something that you love and are having a great time doing is sad. But I think it’s the right thing to do, and that we did it for the right amount of time. It’s been such a big hit in Britain, and every year we did it, it seemed to get bigger, and although it’s wonderful and thrilling to be part of it, you also feel the pressure of not wanting to be there when it … turns a corner. You want to hand it over in rude health. It’s the sort of show that takes a lot of energy and a lot of commitment and a lot of inspiration and a lot of … attack. You can clearly give it as much as it requires for only so long before you start repeating yourself, and I was keen to make sure we didn’t get to that point. RL: What was your feeling when you first read the final scripts — trepidation, anxiety, a sense of impending loss? Excitement?

DT: I was nervous they would somehow disappoint, but of course they didn’t. I read them in my trailer and had a wee cry. They are so beautifully written. I was just delighted to be going out with such a bang. RL: When the show returned to the air, with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, were you already on board for as his replacement or did you first see it as just another fan? DT: I was campaigning for a guest spot! I knew Russell and Julie because I was working with them on “ Casanova ” [a 2005 miniseries] at the same time as they were making the first series. I was actually quite brazenly trying to get a guest spot on one of the episodes, so it was all news to me that Chris was only doing one year when they asked me to step in. It was strange — the first year hadn’t broadcast when I had that conversation, so when it came on air I knew what was happening, and that if the series went for a second year I’d be involved. RL: How did the fan in you react to the new series?

DT: I was thrilled that it was back, delighted that it was being done with such love and attention and taken so seriously by all involved. But again, it’s all slightly mixed up in the fact that I got shown some episodes by Russell and Julie in what I thought was just a social night, at the end of which they said, “And we’re also looking for someone to do it for year two.” So I can’t really separate out my experience of watching an episode for the first time with knowing that it might become a bigger part of my life. RL: Did you have a moment of adolescent glee at being offered the role? DT: I had a couple of weeks of indecision, actually. Russell said, “I know you’re probably having some sort of surprisingly conflicting emotions about this,” because he had that experience as a fan suddenly asked to be involved, and it wasn’t an immediate rush for him either. You’re being asked in a way take on the expectations of your 8-year-old self, and that’s quite an undertaking. So I was surprised at how difficult I found it to say yes — you had to wonder if this was a clever idea.

I knew that the episodes that they made were good but you don’t know what that capricious, critical, public reaction will be. This kind of drama was not being made in Britain at the time. We hadn’t made a science fiction drama for I don’t know how many years, or for that kind of family audience — it wasn’t a children’s show but neither was it a gritty adult drama. So it was a huge gamble. I knew that with Russell at the helm it was going to be a quality product, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into something that will be taken into the nation’s heart, as ultimately it was. And so I vacillated a bit, and then I just woke up one morning and thought, ‘What are you doing, you can’t let this opportunity go by.'” RL: Where were you in your career at that point? Where were you were headed? DT: I never felt like I was headed anywhere; I’ve always sort of bumbled, to be honest; I’ve always just gone from one contract to other; I’ve been mostly fortunate that I’ve been able to join them up. And that’s all I ever really hoped for.

RL: The film of your “Hamlet,” which you played for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2008, will air here on PBS in 2010. What was it like playing that role in the midst of becoming a pop-cultural phenomenon? DT: It’s very difficult to imagine oneself as a pop cultural phenomenon. When I did ‘Hamlet,’ I did it, well, because it was ‘Hamlet’ at the Royal Shakespeare Company — who wouldn’t? To me it was a logical step, ’cause I’d done a lot of work at the Royal Shakespeare Company. I slightly underestimated how noteworthy that might be to those who weren’t perhaps aware that that was a large part of what I did, so I was slightly taken aback by how much attention that got and how people were rather surprised that the same person who played Doctor Who would also play Hamlet. It just made it all the more alarming, because it’s a nerve-wracking enough thing to do, but when you realize that everybody’s watching and waiting for you to fail at it, it doesn’t really allow one to cut loose and feel emboldened.

On the opening night in Stratford when outside my dressing room window the BBC News 24 truck pulled up, I realized that if I failed at this it was going to be on a fairly international level, which wasn’t really the plan. [Laughs.] So, yes, it was nerve-wracking — but also thrilling, that it got so much attention and was, broadly speaking, very well-received. RL: Is it a role you would have gone to in the normal course of things? DT: It was always an ambition, certainly, and certainly to do it somewhere like the Royal Shakespeare Company is kind of the pinnacle of that flavor of ambition; I’d played Romeo for them the last time I’d been there, so maybe there’s something of a natural progression. But it’s difficult to know whether without the celebrity of “Doctor Who” it would have come my way quite as quickly as it did. RL: Though I guess there’s an age limit with that part. DT: Well, exactly, yes — you’ve kind of got to get there before you’re 40, really, so I couldn’t have hung around much longer.

— Robert Lloyd David Tennant wedding: Georgia Moffett and Doctor Who star marry on New Year's Eve | Daily Mail Online comments Doctor Who star David Tennant will be getting married to the daughter of former Timelord Peter Davison today, the Daily Mail can reveal. The dashing actor, who is credited with helping to revive the BBC sci-fi series, will tie the knot with pretty Georgia Moffett in an intimate New Year’s Eve ceremony in London. The couple already have a baby daughter called Olive, who was born in March, and have been making plans to marry ever since Mr Tennant proposed last Christmas. Happy couple: Georgia Moffett and David Tennant are to marry in an intimate New Year's Eve ceremony in London Last night, a friend said: ‘David and Georgia can’t wait to get married, they are madly in love. ‘They have tried to keep everything quiet and the wedding is for family and closest friends only.’ Proud: Davison with daughter Georgia Even by a Time Lord’s standards, their romance is a fairly head-spinning concept.

Mr Tennant, 40, who played the tenth Doctor who, met his fiancée when she had a guest role in a 2008 episode – playing the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny. Miss Moffett’s father, in turn, had played the fifth Time Lord. The blonde actress, 27, whose mother is actress Sandra Dickinson, already has a nine-year-old son called Tyler whom she gave birth to in 2002, when she was just 17. She brought him up alone and has never publicly revealed who the father is. She then set up home with her Where The Heart Is co-star Adam Harvey in 2004. The couple split up two years later but they remained friends and Harvey continued to be a presence in her son’s life. Mr Davison, 60, has said of his daughter’s relationship with Mr Tennant: ‘It’s great because David is a genuinely nice guy. 'I’m delighted Georgia has found happiness because she hasn’t always had an easy life.’ Speaking about his future son-in-law, Mr Davison told the Mail in July that Mr Tennant was ‘besotted’ with his baby daughter.

He said: ‘I suspect that, crucially, Georgia wasn’t overawed by David. He’s a really nice guy, but a lot of people are intimidated by actors who’ve played The Doctor. I’ve been asked to pose for photos with fans who’ve been shaking beside me, just because I played The Doctor. Nice guy: Peter Davison, left, has said he is delighted that his daughter will marry David Tennant ‘I suspect that goes on too with David, who, like me, is intimidating without doing anything to intimidate. Georgia was able to get over that, partly because she’s strong and courageous, and partly because she grew up around an actor who played The Doctor. She was never fazed by meeting TV actors when she was a child – it’s second nature to her.’ He said the couple would opt for a conventional and un-showbiz wedding, saying: ‘I very much doubt they’ll have a Doctor Who themed wedding, for example. I don’t think that’s their “thing.”’ Mr Davison, who also has two sons by his second wife Elizabeth Morton, was the Doctor that Tennant loved watching when he was growing up. And it appears the admiration is mutual.

Davison told the Daily Mail that Tennant was ‘a very fine Doctor Who’. Prior to dating Mr Tennant, Miss Moffett revealed in an interview: 'David is dishy, isn't he? He's not only a good-looking but he is such a lovely, sweet guy.' Very fine Dr Who: David Tennant with his co-star Catherine Tate Mr Tennant and his fiancee may already have a minister on stand-by to oversee their nuptials. The actor’s father is the Rev Sandy Mcdonald, a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. His beloved mother Helen died from cancer in 2007. Miss Moffett is not the first actress whom Mr Tennant, whose role was taken over by Matt Smith, has dated. In October 2007, He parted ways with actress Sophia Myles after a two-year relationship, following her move to Hollywood. They, too, met on set - when Myles played Madame de Pompadour in a 2006 Doctor Who episode.

David Tennant | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia David John McDonald (better known under his stage name David Tennant) portrayed Barty Crouch Jr in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . He is best known for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running BBC series Doctor Who . Contents [ show ] Early life Tennant attended the Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School in Scotland. He also attended Saturday classes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama . Career Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. When he was 16 he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools. The following year he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui co-starring Ashley Jensen, one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company. Tennant's first major TV role was as the manic depressive Campbell in the Scottish drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994).

During filming, Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with Weir for five years and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile- during which Weir played an alternate version of the Doctor- and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4. Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (a role he recorded for the 1998 Arkangel Complete Shakespeare production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. In 2000, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage.

Tennant appeared in several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with his Doctor Who predecessor Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr In 2005, soon after his appearance in Goblet of Fire, Tennant was signed to take over as the Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who after Christopher Eccleston chose to leave after a single season. Tennant is has been identified by Doctor Who Magazine and other media as one of the most popular actors to play the iconic SF character.

In October 2008, he announced that he would be stepping down as The Doctor after appearing in four special episodes scheduled to air by the end of 2009; he was replaced by relative unknown Matt Smith, though Tennant was then confirmed to be reprising his role as the Tenth Doctor alongside Smith and John Hurt in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special, Day of the Doctor, in November 2013. [3] In 2008, coinciding with his announcement regarding Doctor Who, Tennant performed in Hamlet the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. His co-star was Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame. A back injury forced Tennant to undergo surgery towards the end of 2008, but he recovered in time to complete his run on Hamlet and film his final Doctor Who episodes. David Tennant having a laugh on set of Doctor Who (this was taken just before he got the role in Harry Potter) Since completing his final scenes in Doctor Who, Tennant has filmed his performance of Hamlet for eventual TV broadcast, and is reportedly being considered for a number of high-profile movie roles.

He is also scheduled to host Masterpiece Contemporary, a new version of Masterpiece Theatre, for the American PBS network in the fall of 2009. [4] Tennant performed alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) in Much Ado About Nothing between May 2011 and September 2011. He also did voice work opposite Imelda Staunton again playing a protagonist in the Aardman film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! . Her voicing Queen Victoria and him voicing Charles Darwin. He currently plays Detective Inspector Alec Hardy on the BBC series Broadchurch . He is also the voice of the latest incarnation of the Fugitoid in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. In 2017, he will voice for a Disney XD reboot of DuckTales as Scrooge McDuck. Since 2015, Tennant has portrayed Kilgrave in the Netflix original series, Jessica Jones.

Behind the scenes Coincidentally, the last chapter that Tennant's Crouch Jr appears in The Goblet of Fire is called "The Parting of the Ways" - as is the Doctor Who revival Series 1 finale where Eccleston's Ninth Doctor regenerates into Tennant's Tenth Doctor. The amount of time the characters appear in is also very similar, as Crouch Jr appears for just the first page of the chapter, while the Tenth Doctor appears in the final scene of the episode. Tennant's first true solo appearance as the Tenth Doctor occurred in a (canonical) mini-episode entitled Born Again in some circles, set immediately after his regeneration and produced for the 2005 Children in Need Appeal. This episode was first broadcast on 18 November 2005—the same day Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released in cinemas. Tennant and Freema Agyeman (companion Martha Jones ) mention Expelliarmus , J. K. Rowling and the seventh Harry Potter book in the Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code .

During the two-part Doctor Who story Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel , he appears along with Roger Lloyd-Pack - who in Goblet of Fire, appeared as Barty Crouch Snr . Ironically, their roles from Goblet of Fire are reversed in the episode, as Lloyd-Pack is a hero in Goblet of Fire but a villain in Doctor Who while Tennant is a Goblet of Fire villain but the hero in Doctor Who. Trivia In 2013, IGN ranked Tennant as the best Doctor, [5] along with the Daily Mail [6] and Radio Times His wife Georgia (neé Moffett) is the daughter of Fifth Doctor Peter Davison .

Question: Who has taken over the TV role of Doctor Who, from actor David Tennant?
Answer: MATT SMITH